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Taste of Home Comfort Food Diet Cookbook

Get a FREE PREVIEW & 2 FREE GIFTS! Try our ALL-NEW Taste of Home Comfort Food Diet Cookbook and discover how you can eat healthy, lose weight and still enjoy the foods you crave! Inside this beautiful, hardcover cookbook, you’ll find 350+ delicious, home-style recipes all shown in full color...plus tips and secrets to help you shed pounds. At last...a diet plan you can live with! Claim your free preview and free gift today!

Featured recipe:

Caramel Toffee Ice Cream Pie

This delicious pie is easy to make and so pretty. It comes together in under 30 minutes and since you can make it in advance, it’s ideal for entertaining.

— Diane Lombardo, New Castle, Pennsylvania

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Taste of Home Ultimate Five Ingredient Recipes

Get a FREE PREVIEW & FREE GIFT! For super-simple, super-fast recipes your family’s sure to savor, try our ALL-NEW Taste of Home Ultimate Five Ingredient Cookbook. This beautiful, hardcover cookbook is packed with 398 of our best-ever 5-ingredient recipes…all with prep and cook times included. Plus you’ll get dozens of handy tips designed to cut your kitchen time in half. Claim your free preview and free gift now!

Featured recipe:

Savory Chicken Dinner

No one would guess that these moist chicken breasts and tender potatoes are seasoned with herb- and garlic-flavored soup mix. The meal-in-one is simple to assemble, and it all bakes in one dish so there's little cleanup.
— Leslie Adams, Springfield, Missouri

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Taste of Home Essentials

Featured recipe:

Strawberry Meringue Pie

This great dessert is simple, so don't be put off by the long directions.

— Kathleen Mercier of Orrington, Maine

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Get to Know...Cindy Carl!

Cindy Carl is a second-generation cookbook collector. “My mom bought cookbooks from nearby churches, our firehouse and local organizations,” she writes from Barto, Pennsylvania. “As a child, I was always practically under my mom’s apron in the kitchen, baking and cooking together.”  It should come as no surprise then, that Cindy’s mom gave her a cookbook when she was 12. “I have been collecting them ever since,” Cindy writes. “Today, I have well over 200 cookbooks.”

Some people curl up with a good book, but Cindy says she prefers to sit down with a cookbook and page through it, cover to cover. “Cookbooks are a staple for my relaxation times,” she explains. “I prefer cookbooks with photographs. If there’s a great picture of a dish, I'm much more likely to give the recipe a try. I also enjoy recipes with stories behind them. I like learning what makes the dish special to the author.”

Cindy has dozens of titles that she relies on when preparing menus. “The Taste of Home Annual Recipes cookbooks are some of my favorites because I can find a recipe for just about anything,” she says. “If we're in the mood for chicken, I can look up chicken in the index and find several easy ideas. I once wanted to try something new with hotdogs. I grabbed the 1999 edition, and I found a great tasting dish named Corn Dog Casserole.”

The casserole quickly became a family favorite with Cindy’s gang, as did Banana Split Bread from the 2003 edition. “Some of our other favorites are Bruschetta Chicken (Taste of Home Annual Recipes 2002) and Chocolate Chip Pancakes (Taste of Home Annual Recipes 2004),” shares Cindy. 

“When I became a mom, I carried on the same tradition my mother taught me,” she notes. “I taught my son to cook and bake at a very young age. Today, he is very self sufficient in the kitchen, but at age 20 he says, ‘It's still better when you make it, mom!’" 

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